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Appendix B. Documenting Sources Using APA Format. Why Use APA Format?. Allows readers to cross-reference your sources easily Provides consistent format within a discipline Gives you credibility as a writer Protects yourself from plagiarism. Cross-Referencing Your Sources. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Appendix B

Documenting Sources

Using APA Format

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Allows readers to cross-reference your sources easily

Provides consistent format within a discipline

Gives you credibility as a writer

Protects yourself from plagiarism

Why Use APA Format?

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Cross-referencing allows readers to locate the publication information of source material. This is of great value for researchers who may want to locate your sources for their own research projects.

Cross-Referencing Your Sources

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Using a consistent format helps your reader understand your arguments and the sources they’re built on.

It also helps you keep track of your sources as you build arguments.

Using a Consistent Format

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The proper use of APA style shows the credibility of writers; such writers show accountability to their source material.

Establishing Credibility

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Proper citation of your sources in APA style can help you avoid plagiarism, which is a serious offense. It may result in anything from failure of the assignment to expulsion from school.

Avoiding Plagiarism

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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed.

www.apastyle.org Composition

textbooks OWL website:

owl.english.purdue.edu

Where Do I Find APA Format?

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Reference Page Parenthetical

Citations

APA Style: Two Main Concerns

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A list of every source that you make reference to in your essay.

Provides the information necessary for a reader to locate and retrieve any sources cited in your essay.

Each retrievable source cited in the essay must appear on the reference page, and vice versa.

Reference Page

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A Sample Reference Page

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References

Fussell, P. (1975). The Great War and modern memory. New

York: Oxford UP.

Marcus, J. (1989). The asylums of Antaeus: Women, war, and

madness—is there a feminist fetishism? In H. A. Veeser

(Ed.), The New Historicism (pp. 132-151). New York:

Routledge.

Mott, F. W. (1916). The effects of high explosives upon the

central nervous system. The Lancet, 55(2), 331-38.

Showalter, E. (1997). Hystories: Hysterical epidemics and modern

media. New York: Columbia UP.

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Most citations should contain the following basic information:

Author’s name Title of work Publication

information

Reference Page

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BookShay, J. (1994). Achilles in Vietnam: Combat trauma and the undoing of character. New York: Touchstone.

Article in a MagazineKlein, J. (1998, October 5). Dizzy days.

The New Yorker, 40-45.

References: Some Examples

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Web pagePoland, D. (1998, October 26). The hot button. Roughcut. Retrieved October 28, 1998 from http://www.roughcut.com

References: Some Examples

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A newspaper articleTommasini, A. (1998, October 27).

Master teachers whose artistry glows in private. New York Times, p. B2.

A source with no known authorCigarette sales fall 30% as California

tax rises. (1999, September 14). New York Times, p. A17.

References: Some Examples

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What other types of sources might you need to list on your reference page?

Study the basics of APA citation format. When something odd comes up, don’t guess. Look it up!

Reference Page

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When quoting any words that are not your own Quoting means to

repeat another source word for word, using quotation marks

When Should You Use Parenthetical Citations?

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When summarizing facts and ideas from a source Summarizing means to take

ideas from a large passage of another source and condense them, using your own words

When paraphrasing a source Paraphrasing means to use

the ideas from another source but change the phrasing into your own words

When Should You Use Parenthetical Citations?

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Author’s last name, publication year, and page number(s) of quote must appear in the text

Caruth (1996) states that a traumatic response frequently entails a “delayed, uncontrolled repetitive appearance of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena” (p.11).A traumatic response frequently entails a “delayed, uncontrolled repetitive appearance of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena” (Caruth, 1996, p.11).

Handling Quotes in Your Text

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Sometimes additional information is necessary More than one author with the same last

name(H. James, 1878); (W. James, 1880)

Two or more works in the same parentheses(Caruth, 1996; Fussell, 1975; Showalter, 1997)

Work with six or more authors(Smith et al, 1998)

Specific part of a source(Jones, 1995, chap. 2)

Handling Parenthetical Citations

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If the source has no known author, then use an abbreviated version of the title:

Full Title: “California Cigarette Tax Deters Smokers”

Citation: (“California,” 1999)

Handling Parenthetical Citations

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A reference to a personal communication:

Source: email message from C. Everett Koop

Citation: (C. E. Koop, personal communication, May 16, 1998)

A general reference to a web siteSource: Purdue University web site

Citation: (http://www.purdue.edu)

Handling Parenthetical Citations

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Recently, the history of warfare has been significantly revised by Higonnet et al (1987), Marcus (1989), and Raitt and Tate (1997) to include women’s personal and cultural responses to battle and its resultant traumatic effects. Feminist researchers now concur that “It is no longer true to claim that women's responses to the war have been ignored” (Raitt & Tate, p. 2). Though these studies focus solely on women's experiences, they err by collectively perpetuating the masculine-centered impressions originating in Fussell (1975) and Bergonzi (1996).

However, Tylee (1990) further criticizes Fussell, arguing that his study “treated memory and culture as if they belonged to a sphere beyond the existence of individuals or the control of institutions” (p. 6).

Handling Parenthetical Citations

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There are many different combinations and variations within APA citation format.

If you run into something unusual, look it up!

Handling Quotes in Your Text